Daily Times

KARACHI: President Dr Arif Alvi visited Amal Umer house on Saturday, a minor lost her life due to drift bullet while police encountering in Akhtar Colony area of Karachi.

The president expressed his grief upon Amal’s demise and asked her parents about details of the incident which happened on August 13.

Alvi has directed the authorities concerned to complete investigation about the incident.

10-year-old girl was gunned when a policeman fired a bullet to catch a robber, who had snatched possessions from her family some moments earlier.

While talking to media, her father Umer said that they were travelling from Korangi Road towards Finance and Trade Centre (FTC) when a man approached them at the signal and asked to hand over everything.

“The road was too busy at the signal, the robbers took my wife’s cell phone and bag then told us to roll up the windows and left when a bullet suddenly hit our windshield,” he added.

He further said that the moment he turned back to check his two daughters sitting in the backseat, he saw Amal bleeding terribly and his other daughter clutching her seat.

Terrified father in hurry to take her to any nearby hospital, and reached at National Medical Centre. “I rolled down my window and asked people to clear the path. We did not know where the bullet had hit, as her hair was in her face and her eyes were open but there was a lot of blood,” he said.

Beenish her mother said that luckily, we reached the hospital in three to five minutes. But, instead of being given immediate treatment, the hospital staff asked to take Amal to Jinnah hospital as she “did not have much time” and this was a medico-legal case.

“The hospital initially did not even help them to arrange an ambulance by the time an ambulance reached them and they took their daughter to Jinnah Hospital it was too late. Hence, Amal had died,” she added.

In her blog she said ‘The whole system failed’: When my 10-year-old in Karachi was shot by a stray police bullet.

Earlier Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar has already taken suo moto notice of Amal’s death and fixed the matter for hearing on September 25